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The objective of a Backgammon game is to shift your chips around the game board and pull them from the board quicker than your opponent who works just as hard to achieve the same buthowever they move in the opposing direction. Succeeding in a game of Backgammon needsrequires both strategy and good luck. How far you will be able to shift your pieces is left to the numbers from rolling a pair of dice, and the way you shift your checkers are determined by your overall playing plans. Players use differing plans in the differing parts of a game based on your positions and opponent's.

The Running Game Plan

The aim of the Running Game strategy is to bring all your chips into your inner board and get them off as quickly as you can. This plan focuses on the pace of advancing your chips with little or no time spent to hit or barricade your competitor's pieces. The best scenario to use this tactic is when you believe you might be able to move your own checkers a lot faster than the opposition does: when 1) you have a fewer pieces on the board; 2) all your chips have past your competitor's pieces; or 3) the opponent does not employ the hitting or blocking plan.

The Blocking Game Technique

The main goal of the blocking strategy, by its title, is to stop the competitor's checkers, temporarily, not fretting about shifting your pieces quickly. After you have established the blockade for your opponent's movement with a couple of checkers, you can shift your other chips rapidly off the game board. You really should also have an apparent plan when to extract and move the checkers that you used for blocking. The game gets intriguing when the opponent uses the same blocking technique.